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EDITORIAL: End the stigma around HIV, AIDS

EDITORIAL: End the stigma around HIV, AIDS

Editorial Board November 30, 2021

World AIDS Day started in 1998 and is observed on Dec. 1 every year to dedicate awareness and provide support to people who have lost their loved ones to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Despite...

The Rev. Rae Lewis-Thornton spoke out about her personal experience with HIV and AIDS at Whispers in the Dark Monday in the 7th Street Underground at Martin Luther King Jr. Union.

AIDS activist encourages openness about syndrome

Kennedy Nolen, Multicultural Reporter February 13, 2017

Unprotected sex with a man she thought she loved turned into a diagnosis of HIV for the Rev. Rae Lewis-Thornton. Now an HIV and AIDS activist, Lewis-Thornton spoke about her experiences Monday night...

Sorority to host free HIV testing

Roberto Hodge, Multicultural Editor February 1, 2015

A medical team from the Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department will be giving students free and confidential HIV testing at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr....

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